Subspecies Cyanoramphus novaezelandiae erythrotis (Wagler, 1832) (extinct)

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• Platycercus erythrotis Wagler, J.G. 1832. Monographia Psittacorum. Abhandlungen K. Bayer Akademie Wissenschaftlichen München 1: 463-750 [published Dec. 1832] [526] [based in part on Psittacus pacificus Gmelin, 1788 var. gamma in Latham, J. 1790. Index ornithologicus, sive Systema Ornithologiae; complectens avium divisionem in classes, ordines, genera, species, ipsarumque varietates: adjectis synonymis, locis, descriptionibus, &c. London : Leigh & Sotheby Vol. 1 & 2 xviii 920 pp. [published Dec. Mathews, G.M. 1927. Systema Avium Australasianarum. A systematic list of the birds of the Australasian region. London : British Ornithologists' Union Pt 1 iv 426 pp. Mathews, G.M. 1913. A List of the Birds of Australia containing the names and synonyms connected with each genus, species, and subspecies of birds found in Australia, at present known to the author. London : Witherby xxvii 453 pp.] (104), on Platycercus pacificus (Latham =Gmelin, 1788) in Vigors, N.A. 1825. Descriptions of some rare, interesting, or hitherto uncharacterized subjects of zoology. Zoological Journal 1: 526–542 [published Jan.] (529 and suppl. 1, f. 1-lectotype), and on specimens in BMNH, the Linnean Society of London, and N.A. Vigors' collection of live birds; because other subspecies may have been included in the protologue, a lectotype is selected here to tie erythrotis Wagler, 1832 to the Macquarie Island form, as is conventional; specimens which Vigors, N.A. 1825. Descriptions of some rare, interesting, or hitherto uncharacterized subjects of zoology. Zoological Journal 1: 526–542 [published Jan.] referred to were then in his own collection and in the collection of the British Museum—although none of this material was traced in BMNH with certainty by Salvadori, T. 1891. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Psittaci, or Parrots. London : British Museum Vol. 20 xvii 658 pp. XVIII pls (586), Sharpe, R.B. 1906. Birds. pp. 79–515 in, The History of the Collections contained in the Natural History Departments of the British Museum. London : British Museum Vol. 2. (414–416) and Warren, R.L.M. 1966. Type-specimens of Birds in the British Museum (Natural History). Vol. 1 Non-Passerines. London : British Museum ix 320 pp., it is nevertheless possible that the BMNH specimen cited by Salvadori, T. 1891. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Psittaci, or Parrots. London : British Museum Vol. 20 xvii 658 pp. XVIII pls from the Zoological Society (of London) is Vigors', and the lectotype chosen here, given that Vigors passed his collection to that Society, see Sharpe, R.B. 1906. Birds. pp. 79–515 in, The History of the Collections contained in the Natural History Departments of the British Museum. London : British Museum Vol. 2].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BNHM (figured as fig. 1 in Vigors, N.A. 1825. Descriptions of some rare, interesting, or hitherto uncharacterized subjects of zoology. Zoological Journal 1: 526–542 [published Jan.], institution uncertain, unsexed, ex Zoological Society of London coll.), Macquarie Is. (as insula Macquariana).
  Paralectotype(s) ZSM unsexed (institution uncertain, ex Linnean Society of London coll.).

  Subsequent designation references:

  Vigors, N.A. 1825. Descriptions of some rare, interesting, or hitherto uncharacterized subjects of zoology. Zoological Journal London 1: 526-542 [published Jan.]; Schodde, R. in Schodde, R. & Mason, I.J. 1997. Aves (Columbidae to Coraciidae). In, Houston, W.W.K. & Wells, A. (eds). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia Vol. 37.2 xiii 440 pp. [147].

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Southern Ocean, extinct since c. 1880 .

Ecological Descriptors

Alpine, arthropod-feeder, diurnal, granivore, gregarious, low shrubland, sedentary, terrestrial, tussock grassland, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Seasonal breeder, sexually dimorphic in size of bill, apparently fed on ground, shore and shrubbery on seeds and crustacea, and nested in burrows.

General References

Oliver, W.R.B. 1955. New Zealand Birds. Wellington : A.H. & A.W. Reed 661 pp. 12 pls. (history of occurrence and extinction; anecdotal biology)

Taylor, R.H. 1979. How the Macquarie Island Parakeet became extinct. New Zealand Journal of Ecology 2: 42-45 (history of extinction)

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